Troops Raise Flag Over Town Hall

Ukrainian troops raised the country's flag over the eastern town of Slovyansk on Saturday after pro-Russia militants that had turned the town into a center of their three-month insurgency fled.

President Petro Poroshenko announced the recapture in a statement on his website. A photograph of three soldiers standing in front of a yellow-and-blue flag, apparently on top of the town hall, was posted on his Twitter feed.